Questions - Pennsylvania Senate - October 12, 2010
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Conducted October
12, 2010
By Rasmussen Reports
1*
If the 2010 election for United States Senate were held today would you vote
for Republican Pat Toomey or Democrat Joe Sestak? (Please note that we split the survey to rotate the
order of the candidate names, so while half will hear the Republican candidate
first, the other half hears the Democrat mentioned first.)
49%
Pat Toomey
39%
Joe Sestak
2% Some other candidate
10%
Not sure
2*
I’m going to read you a short list of people in the News. For each, please let
me know if you have a very favorable, somewhat favorable, somewhat unfavorable,
or very unfavorable impression.
Pat
Toomey
Joe
Sestak
3*A
proposal has been made to repeal the health care bill and stop it from going
into effect. Do you strongly favor, somewhat favor, somewhat oppose or strongly
oppose a proposal to repeal the health care bill?
4* The health care
plan passed by Congress requires every American to buy or obtain health
insurance. Do you Strongly Favor, Somewhat Favor, Somewhat Oppose, or Strongly
Oppose a federal law that requires every American to buy or obtain health
insurance?
5* Should individual
states have the right to opt out of the entire national health care plan?
6*
Do the policies and practices of the federal government encourage people to
enter the
7*
Which is the better approach to dealing with illegal immigration—allowing
individual states to act on their own to enforce immigration laws or relying
upon the federal government to enforce immigration laws?
8*
When it comes to determining how you will vote this November, how important is
the issue of immigration?
9*
Generally speaking, how would you rate the
10* Are economic conditions in the country getting
better or worse?
11* Last year,
Congress and the president enacted a $787 billion economic stimulus plan. So
far, has the economic stimulus plan helped the economy, hurt the economy or had
no impact on the economy?
12* In reacting
to the nation’s current economic problems, what worries you more….that the
federal government will do too much or that the federal government will not do
enough?
13* Do you
consider yourself part of the Tea Party Movement?
14* How would you rate the job Barack Obama has been doing as
President… do you strongly approve, somewhat approve, somewhat disapprove, or
strongly disapprove of the job he’s been doing?
15* How would you rate the job Ed Rendell
has been doing as Governor… do you strongly approve, somewhat approve, somewhat
disapprove, or strongly disapprove of the job he’s been doing?
NOTE: Margin of Sampling Error, +/- 4 percentage points with a 95%
level of confidence